Motivational Quotes

Change

To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must cultivate our personal life; and to cultivate our personal life, we must first set our hearts right.

- Confucius

Best Quotes about Change

I realized the problem was me and nobody could change me except myself.

Petworth, John

The only people who like change are wet babies.

There has never been a time when you and I have not existed, nor will there be a time when we will cease to exist. As the same person inhabits the body through childhood, youth, and old age, so too at the time of death he attains another body. The wise are not deluded by these changes.

Bhagavad Gita

Let us resolve to be masters, not the victims, of our history, controlling our own destiny without giving way to blind suspicions and emotions.

Kennedy, John F.

Don't fear change -- embrace it.

D'Angelo, Anthony J.

Remember, no human condition is ever permanent. Then you will not be overjoyed in good fortune nor too scornful in misfortune.

Socrates

It is a psychological fact that you can influence your environment and thoughts. If you do so consciously and with high purpose, you can change your habits and attitudes for the better.

We cannot become what we need to be, remaining what we are.

Depree, Max

Only the wisest and the stupidest of men never change.

Confucius

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We live in an era when rapid change breeds fear, and fear too often congeals us into a rigidity which we mistake for stability.

White, Lynn

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The only thing we know about the future is that it will be different.

Drucker, Peter F.

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Change is the end result of all true learning. Change involves three things: First, a dissatisfaction with self -- a felt void or need; second, a decision to change to fill the void or need; and third, a conscious dedication to the process of growth and change -- the willful act of making the change, doing something.

Buscaglia, Leo

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Never swap horses crossing a stream.

Proverb, American

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A living thing is distinguished from a dead thing by the multiplicity of the changes at any moment taking place in it.

Spencer, Herbert

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Most of us are about as eager to be changed as we were to be born, and go through our changes in a similar state of shock.

Baldwin, James

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One of the prevailing sources of misery and crime is in the generally accepted assumption, that because things have been wrong a long time, it is impossible they will ever be right.

Ruskin, John

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The great person is ahead of their time, the smart make something out of it, and the blockhead, sets themselves against it.

Baudrillard, Jean

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Change yourself and your work will seem different.

Peale, Norman Vincent

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Being willing to change allows you to move from a point of view to a viewing point -- a higher, more expansive place, from which you can see both sides.

Crum, Thomas

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People don't change. Only their costumes do.

Moorse, Gene

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To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often.

Churchill, Winston

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A stop sign is a gift for you to learn that moving in the same direction won't take you any place new.

Sikes, Rex Steven

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Man's yesterday may never be like his morrow; Nought may endure but Mutability.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

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In true dialogue, both sides are willing to change.

ThÝch Nhat Hanh

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It seemed that each time we would become proficient at a given task there would be a change made for no apparent reason. It sometimes appeared that changes were made simply because sufficient time had elapsed since the last change. And then our efforts would begin again from the beginning.

Adalphos, General

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Any transition serious enough to alter your definition of self will require not just small adjustments in your way of living and thinking but a full-on metamorphosis.

Martha Beck

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The universe is change; our life is what our thoughts make it.

Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Change is certain. Peace is followed by disturbances; departure of evil men by their return. Such recurrences should not constitute occasions for sadness but realities for awareness, so that one may be happy in the interim.

I Ching

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No one can persuade another to change. Each of us guards a gate of change that can only be opened from the inside. We cannot open the gate of another, either by argument or emotional appeal.

Ferguson, Marilyn

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I do not believe you can do today's job with yesterday's methods and be in business tomorrow.

Jackson, Nelson

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Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe.

Sontag, Susan

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Everything changes, nothing remains without change.

Buddha

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Perfection is immutable. But for things imperfect, change is the way to perfect them.

Felltham, Owen

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You do not notice changes in what is always before you.

Colette, Sidonie Gabrielle

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In pain is a new time born.

Chamisso, Adelbert Von

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Change hurts. It makes people insecure, confused, and angry. People want things to be the same as they've always been, because that makes life easier. But, if you're a leader, you can't let your people hang on to the past.

Marcinko, Richard

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Seek not to change the world, but choose to change your mind about the world.

A Course In Miracles

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When things come to the worse, they generally mend.

Moodie, Susanna

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The need for change bulldozed road down the center of my mind.

Angelou, Maya

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We must all obey the great law of change. It is the most powerful law of nature.

Burke, Edmund

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Christians are supposed not merely to endure change, nor even to profit by it, but to cause it.

Fosdick, Harry Emerson

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If things change then they will be different, but if they don't then things will stay the same.

Gilcrest, Peter

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Change starts when someone sees the next step.

Drayton, William

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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.

Maslow, Abraham H.

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Be the change you want to see in the world.

Gandhi, Mahatma

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We emphasize that we believe in change because we were born of it, we have lived by it, we prospered and grew great by it. So the ;status quo has never been our god, and we ask no one else to bow down before it.

Rowan, Carl

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Change is difficult but often essential to survival.

Brown, Les

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Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

Lee, Bruce

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Be not the first by which a new thing is tried, or the last to lay the old aside.

Pope, Alexander

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God grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change, the courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.